Believe it or not Jake, figures can be fiddled! Our local council have been praised for their efforts!!!
Gromit. Shaney is right. We too are asked to remove bottle tops, and not to put them in the recycle bin after removal, but to put them in with household waste. I would gladly give them to schools to recycle if I had a school near me, but am not using petrol to do this. Apart from not being able to afford to run about the countryside in my car dealing with my waste, surely using petrol in this way is not doing our planet much good.
So many plastics are labelled as recyclable by the manufacturers, but we are unable to recycle them unless we go into another county, of course!!!!
Fly tipping has definitely increased in our area - we are very rural and people do not have the finance or the transport to dispose of their rubbish according to council instructions. How can a rural pensioner without transport dispose of glass bottles, jars etc when they are unable to use the domestic waste bin?